Dowry case: Congress to support Goa BJP VP’s daughter-in-law

Panaji, July 13 : The Goa Congress’s Women’s wing today said they will support the daughter-in-law of state BJP Vice President Anil Hoble, after the latter was booked over dowry harassment and assault charges on Wednesday.

Day after Hoble booked for assaulting and harassing over dowry his daughter-in-law along with his wife and son, Goa Mahila Congress President Pratima Coutinho told media that the party’s representatives would meet the victim and assure full support to fight the legal battle.

“She is a woman and is sad that a person with political clout has been harassing her and her family for dowry. We will meet the victim soon and support her in her struggle because it is a crime against a woman,” Coutinho stated.

All the three accused have been booked under sections 498 (a), 323 (causing hurt), 506 (ii) (criminal intention) and Sections 3 and 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961.

However, Hoble said the complaint is baseless and politically motivated to defame me and my family.

Rahul attacks Modi government over ‘jobless growth’

Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Saturday attacked the Modi government and said that “Indias jobless growth and not empowering farmers and farm labourers is not an option any longer”.

He was addressing members of the Congress Steering Committee here.

“Rahulji says India’s jobless growth and not empowering farmers and farm labourers is not an option any longer. Everything can wait but India’s young and farmers can’t,” Congress spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala said on Twitter.

Gandhi on Friday constituted the 34-member Steering Committee in place of the now-dissolved Congress Working Committee ahead of the party’s plenary in New Delhi from March 16 to 18.

New Delhi: Slamming Union Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s allegations that his family members hold shares in a company run by fraudulent Nirav Modi, Senior Congress leader Abhishek Manu Shingvi on Saturday threatened to take legal action against the defence minister and other BJP leaders. Singhvi said, “BJP/NDA cheap sense of politics has reached ludicrous and ridiculous proportions. Neither my wife, sons nor me have anything whatsoever to do with Gitanjali or Nirav Modi’s companies.”

He said in his statement…

1. Neither I nor any member of my family has any interest in or relation to Nirav Modi or his companies.
2) His company was a tenant in some commercial property owned by our family company.
3) This tenancy ended in December 2017.
4) None of us have anything to do even remotely with Geetanjali company, Firestone or any other business of Nirav Modi.

Union Defence Minister Sitharaman, in a press conference, accused Singhvi’s wife and son of holding stocks in Fire Star Diamond I’nal Pvt Ltd- a company run by Nirav Modi. Sitharaman said the Congress was blaming us wrongly, as it was them who let out a building to Nirav Modi’s Firestar Diamond, which had Anita Singhvi — the wife of Congress leader Abhishek Manu Singhvi — as one of the directors.

She alleged that all the inheritance, legacy and properties, in this case, belonged to the Congress party. Sitharaman said that the Congress was the beneficiary and promoter of the company, but it was accusing the BJP for their own misdeeds.

“Nirav Modi is BJP’s partner and he has also helped the party during its elections. Here farmers are committing suicides as they are not able to finish their debt of Rs 100-Rs 500, but here people are absconding with a huge amount of money,” news agency ANI quoted, the article asserted.

“However, we are not implying that he managed to loot the (PNB) bank with the blessings of BJP leaders or that a share of it (loot) even went to the party coffers. But, Nirav always strived for the BJP’s financial prosperity and helped it win elections with the mountains of cash he built,” the Sena said sarcastically.

The article concluded saying that Mumbai’s Chhagan Bhujbal and Patna’s Lalu Prasad are behind the bars, but liquor baron Vijay Mallya and Neerav Modi are absconding with lakhs and crores worth money.

Earlier on Friday, an FIR was registered against two Punjab National Bank (PNB) officials over the fraud with the bank.

Meanwhile, eight PNB employees were suspended on the same day.

The number of suspended employees now stands at 18, which also includes General Manager level officers. Internal probe of the bank is still underway.